When someone recommends a book to you, read it.

- i can’t think a single time i’ve regretted doing so

- you need to read more anyway

- people usually have your best interest in mind

- it’s a good way to earn the right to do your own recommending

The last book I read was “Same Kind of Different as Me,” and it was recommended to me multiple times by someone I consider a mentor.  Soon I will be writing a post about how this book changed the course of my life.  ”Soon” as in sometime this year.

Now I’m wondering what I’m missing out on in life due to the hundreds of times I didn’t read a book that someone who cares about me recommended.

So, what book should I read next?

My good friend Tyler has decided to try and raise this amount over the next 30 days through the social network of 30 different blogs – mine included.

Help now by going to http://mycharitywater.org/30

or

Consider how much you might spend in one year on bottled water (your second choice for clean water).  Now consider this:

A $20 donation provides clean drinking water to one person for an 20 years.

or

WATCH THIS

charity: water 2010 September Campaign: Clean Water for the Bayaka from charity: water on Vimeo.

Here’s how you can help:

- donating money here.
- SHARE about this on facebook and twitter
- or BLOG about it

Here are some other things you need to know

- 100% of the money donated goes towards water projects. Private donors take care of all overhead.

- Our money will go towards building water projects in Central African Republic (scroll down a bit).

- If you give, charity: water will keep you up-to-date with the status of your project, provide you with GPS coordinates of exactly where the well you contributed to is being built, and take pictures and video along the way.

LETS DO THIS

Tomorrow

I’m joining up with 29 other bloggers to do something cool.  Please bring a water bottle with you to my blog at 9:00am.

Next week

I’m going to release a series of posts that I’m really excited about on the topic of “conversation”

Sometime in the next two weeks

Tyler and I are releasing a new video that is long over due.

It’s real.  Don’t be jealous.

A total find.

I wasn’t told I would be wearing this.  And, the crazy thing was that the shoot took place here.

GREAT NEWS for all of the disaster relief song elitists out there:

You can still buy the original version of We Are The World

It hasn’t been replaced.

For just 99 cents you’ll never have to  rip on the remake again.

Or even better, you won’t have to contribute a single cent towards the millions of dollars the it has earned for Haiti.

And in a few years when you are a better record producer than Quincey Jones you can make the call to never create a third version.

It has come to my attention that I have wronged someone to an extent I didn’t realize.

Six years ago I stuck my finger in my friend’s cousin’s sister’s pizza, and she hasn’t forgotten.

It was a gross, immature, and disrespectul thing to do.

Claire, I’m sorry.

What is that one thing you can only wish you were good at?

Also, watch Tyler get to live his dream of being a roving camera operator.

*shot on an iPhone 4

I’ll pass.

Note to self: When in important meetings, close all streaming MLB games before showing everyone a document.  (You’re fired Kevin)

I can’t believe this guy isn’t wearing shoes!

Always a pleasure.

It happens 87% of the time. A guy and a girl start off as strictly friends,  and eventually one starts feeling more romantic/sexual interest than the other.

I think women like having conversations with me but can’t get over how I smell like printer ink when I sweat.  Just a theory.

I do know for a fact it sucks to be the one that likes the other more.

But does the potential of this happening outweigh the value of knowing and enjoying another person?

I’ve had some great “friendgirls” in my day.  Some of them are now married to other guys.  Some are still around.

I don’t regret any of them (except for you Rebecca! I hope I never see your fat veiny face again.)

I’ve found that women in general have a lot to offer a friendship – very different perspective, unique ability to comfort, and helpful insight into the other half of the world.  I might even go as far as saying we need the opposite sex in our life as single people.

But, inevitably the relationship will end.   Is this good or bad?

I’ve found that people who don’t participate in competitive sports as children have a harder time participating in activities they aren’t guaranteed to win.  It’s as though they never learned to have fun and lose.

Maybe it’s important in relationships to value the game more than the score.   Even when we lose.

Perhaps  if we can accept that:

friendships are always risks and usually seasonal
and
the opposite sex exists for much more than marriage potential

Then, the answer is

YES

Single guys and girls can be

and SHOULD be

friends.

This outfit is for a very specific body type.

Here are a couple of cool shots I took at the NASA space center last week.